1.01 Patch - game crashes when Bulgaria enters the war

[Acras]

while using the 1.01 patch I discovered that the game crashes when the event "Bulgaria signs military pact with the axis" occurs.

A popup message comes up with the error "DIRECTSOUND FAILED: dserr_invalidparam" and the header "draw_sprite_on_map_surface".

I never had this error with 1.0. What can I do ?

[dicedtomato]

I've had the same crash. It happened the first turn, as soon as the Axis ended their turn (I was the Allies).

[xwormwood]

Originally posted by Acras:

What can I do ?

First of all you could use the right forum.

[Acras]

you are absoluteley right with the forum.

can one of the admins please move the topic to the right forum.

thanks in advance

[Hubert Cater]

Unfortuantely this error never came up during the testing for the patch and I am also unable to repeat it.

Question for everyone, have you been able to continue the game or does it always crash at the same spot?

[dicedtomato]

For me, it's crashed twice at the end of the first Axis turn in the '39 campaign (when I was the Allies), and it crashed once during the Allied turn (possibly when I ended the turn - don't quite remember).

DT

[Hubert Cater]

Ok, thanks to Acras' patience it looks like this error is 2-D mode related and if you play in 3-D mode it will not occur. This is a temporary solution and I'll see if I can have a hotfix ready soon to resolve this issue.

Hubert

[cwmark]

My game crashes when Hungary enters the war.

Also I'm using the 2D icons because the 3D icons don't work - they all look like small tv screens filled with snow-noise.

I also get a intermittent crash that says not enough space to launch program.

Already sent a email to Fury Software with my dxdiag, sysinfo, and error files.

Using version 1.01 of the game too.

[Hubert Cater]

Cwmark, hotfix should be out soon...

First off, if you can send me a screenshot of the game with 3D icons that would be very helpful as off hand they should now work identically to 2D units, i.e. no difference in how they are drawn in game.

Question for you on the intermittent crash, did this happen under v1.00 as well?

For possible solutions, please check to see if you are running a program called Winamp. Verify that the default output device setting for Winamp (under the Preferences menu) is set to DirectSound Output. If not please set it to this output selection. Oddly enough, and currently for reasons unknown, this has had some sort of effect on SC2 and known to be a cause of this intermittent crash you are reporting.

Alternatively can you try the following:

- Try renaming the file called 'intro.wav' in your 'Sounds' folder to 'intro_bak.wav.

- Then paste a copy of 'chat.wav' into another folder (other than the 'Sounds' folder) and rename this copy to 'intro.wav'. Move this renamed file back into your 'Sounds' folder

There was a rare error where the size of the 'intro.wav' seemed to cause a memory issue similar to the one you reported and essentially this method allows you to load the game with a smaller (similarily named) 'intro.wav'

Let me know if this helps,

Hubert

[cwmark]

The .wav file swapped seems to have worked. I can launch SC2 without crossing my fingers now.

The lack of 3D icons is still a problem for me.